Gwendoline Christie plays fearsome fighters in both Westeros and a universe far, distant away. And while a statuesque British singer keeps a dual worlds graphic in her mind, her quarrel skills are indeed a overpass between them. Christie’s quarrel with Finn (John Boyega) as Captain Phasma in Star Wars: The Last Jedi and a face-off between Brienne of Tarth and Arya Stark (Maisie Williams) on Game of Thrones were combined by a same choreographer, C.C. Smiff. (The Finn-Phasma quarrel is teased in The Last Jedi trailer.)

“It was C.C. who taught me to fight, taught me to sword quarrel and unequivocally facilitated me in terms of giving me a certainty to go further,” she pronounced in a new interview. Not that there was too distant to go in The Last Jedi. Captain Phasma’s armor is “incredibly restrictive,” Christie said: “It’s severe only to walk.” Still, a 39-year-old singer was “delighted” to play a puzzling impression in The Force Awakens and reprise it in The Last Jedi. She pronounced she loves Phasma’s chromed coming and genderless power.

“I only go behind to a costume, of it being genderless, of it not wanting to arrangement any sexuality, and by that we meant not wanting to uncover a delineations of a woman’s body,” she said. “That feels immeasurable and we consider that connects to group and women.” Fans were so taken by Phasma’s demeanour when it was suggested forward of The Force Awakens in 2015 that some balked about her brief shade time.

“You’ve been asked to be in a Star Wars film. You can’t start complaining, ‘Oh, there wasn’t some-more of me,’” Christie said. “What we will contend about what we see of Captain Phasma (in a new film) — that I, of course, can’t unequivocally contend anything — though we don’t consider people will be disappointed.” For her part, she’s only beholden for her place in dual immeasurable and dear worlds, regardless of what kind of fighting it demands.

“What a outrageous payoff to be partial of these dual extraordinary things. Game of Thrones — nobody knew that it would suffer such implausible success, it’s turn a tellurian materialisation — and I’ve grown adult with Star Wars,” Christie said. “I’ve been hugely propitious in a final few years of my career and I’m only unequivocally gay to be partial of a film.”